I am having WD Passport Hard drive (500GB). I have not set any password for the hard drive. But Now my hard disk is showing locked. I dont know any password for this. I have used this hard drive 1 week back. But now I am not able to access this.
Can anybody let me know, how to unlock the hard disk as I am having critical data in this. I dont want to format.
Sorry for the news but the only way to enter the drive is to format you can at least try some data recovery agent to see if they can recover the data for you.
A few people were that did not set a password and found drive locked have had sucess from trying to access the drive from a different user account like the guest account. If that doen’t help you are out ot luck.
If you have more than one user setup on your computer, you can login to any of the other accounts, for example the Guess account and try to access the external drive from that account.